Niche Markets and the Internet

One of the coolest things about the internet, in my opinion, is the way that it opens up markets for goods that might not be economically viable locally, but are economically viable when every business in the world has a global reach. This has opened us up to a vast array of goods and services that simply weren’t economically viable before.

That said, I think that even on the Internet, the market for this flag can’t be big enough to be economically viable:

Not only is the market for this small, I doubt that anybody buys this unironically.

(link via John Scalzi)

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